The power dropped for a second or two this morning; a good test for the Uninterruptible Power Supplies that are keeping the servers safe.
Everything worked perfectly; I need to add the Vonage box to the UPS power too – the only thing that went out was the phone.
I finally got round to building my lab servers in my office.
It’s certainly different using Microsoft Virtual Server and System Center Virtual Management Manager.
I’m scratching around for a 64 bit, Hyper-V capable server now.
I installed twhirl a couple of months ago. Today it stopped working telling me that Adobe Air was broken.
There is nothing on Vista to let me uninstall, repair or otherwise tinker with Air and its applications. I found this timely blog post on uninstall:
http://blog.flashmech.net/2008/05/this-is-how-you-uninstall-adobe-air/
Quoted from his email, here’s how you uninstall Adobe AIR if it does not appear in the Add/Remove Programs control panel:
Download the latest installer and then pass it the “-uninstall” flag from the command line, like so:
AdobeAIRInstaller.exe –uninstall
Worked like a champ.
We switched over our phone providers when we moved.
Here’s how it looks so far:
Utah:
Local – Qwest – $45 per month
LD/Intl – AT&T – $75 per month
DSL – Covad – $130 per monthWashington:
DSL – Covad – $130 per month
VOIP – Vonage – $30 per month
Most of our phone service was international to the UK – we made very few local or long distance calls. Now with Vonage we’re getting those as part of our plan.
The other big saving is in killing the local service. I got Covad with naked DSL (also known as a dry line) – so there’s no dial tone on the phone – just data.
The wireless network is re-configured and running.
Finally I got the wireless network, IPsec and wi-fi security configured to let authorised laptops be part of the private backbone. No more uploading photos to the NAS server only when docked!
I had to swap out the old wireless router – an old Netgear – it would randomly drop DHCP offer packets from the backbone to the bridged wireless network. Even the online docs from Netgear say it’s problematic.
I upgraded to a new 802.11n router – works perfectly and gives great throughput.
The old Netgear is now the guest, non-backbone access network. Wireless access for guests and family without letting them loose on the backbone.
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